So the evolution of my nick is as follows. I had a bicycle that had the word Zephyr written on it. Which means a western wind. That is related to the Greek god Zephyrus.

I liked words where X make a Z sound. And also had a bit of dyslexia so my firs IRC nick was Xypher swapping the y and e.. I would also use the forms Xypherius or just Xypheri.

Because its close hemming to Cypher I found the nick would get used by others.. Though that is not my origin.

Later I would sign websites I created as The X-Urban Underground (where X was short for Xypher) and that evolved to xuu. Pronounced like zoo.

So the evolution of my nick is as follows. I had a bicycle that had the word Zephyr written on it. Which means a western wind. That is related to the Greek god Zephyrus.

I liked words where X make a Z sound. And also had a bit of dyslexia so my firs IRC nick was Xypher swapping the y and e.. I would also use the forms Xypherius or just Xypheri.

Because its close hemming to Cypher I found the nick would get used by others.. Though that is not my origin.

Later I would sign websites I created as The X-Urban Underground (where X was short for Xypher) and that evolved to xuu. Pronounced like zoo.

A 286, EGA PC from 1987.
As advertised in the May, 1987 issue of “Puget Sound Computer User”. ⌘ Read more

@compudanzas@compudanzas.net I have no idea what that means, but it sounds exciting!

@prologic@twtxt.net
Sounds like a good plan. It is, of course, up to the Master Crafter. 😋

“there’s this mental move that grants a substantial intelligence bonus” means that there’s probably an evolutionarily sound reason that that’s not enabled by default, and furthermore that this value has seen a decent amount of tuning

musical experience that involve harvesting, farming, growth, and caretaking of virtual musical creatures with personality. creatures would socialize with eachother and their interactions would change the overall musical sounds implicitely. #halfbakedideas

The immersive beats and the haunting vocals in “Silent Shout” by The Knife still sound like they came from the future even-though the song was released in 2006…

@!(sndkitref “glottis”)!@ is an analytical model that approximates the kind of sound the human glottis makes, and is now available as a sndkit model. This is extracted from the !voc project.

@niplav@niplav.github.io “Markov” sounds more like meaningless babble (maybe from a political opponent). See also: “duckspeak”.

Sounds like they’re trying to move Automator things into Shortcuts things.

“wide spectrum” sounds like a neat spin on “noise cancellation off”.

Conspiratorial Thinking and “Multiple Outs”

Magicians have this concept called “Multiple Outs.” It’s actually how you can do simple magic tricks. Suppose you have a person pick a card and say you will guess the suit of their card.

They pick a diamond card and announce it, and you tell them to check underneath their chair to reveal a slip of paper that says, “You will pick a diamond card.”

That might sound like a nice trick, but if they had picke … ⌘ Read more

twt is better because I can pronounce it like twit, which sounds a bit like “twat”, which is an insult and therefore better.

@niplav@niplav.github.io “adrationalism” is probably better. “irrationalism” sounds like a pie-appreciation club for math nerds.

Code Log: In which I explore how to make sounds ⌘ Read more…

@niplav@niplav.github.io I wouldn’t disagree with your characterization of people who’re interested in radical life extension, but their messaging, generally, seems to not mention “adding life to your years” at all. “Live to be 150” doesn’t sound all that great if you’re going to have 15 years of being in your 80s, so to speak.

making great progress getting interactive sound and video working on android. it’s a setup I wish I had 5 years ago.

@prologic@twtxt.net @anth Sounds like a good idea. The hash to conv/search url should stay local to a pod.

@prologic@twtxt.net @anth Sounds like a good idea. The hash to conv/search url should stay local to a pod.

I want to listen to music, but quite honestly the silence sounds better.

@prologic@twtxt.net sounds about right. I tend to try to build my own before pulling in libs. learn more that way. I was looking at using it as a way to build my twt mirroring idea. and testing the lex parser with a wide ranging corpus to find edge cases. (the pgp signed feeds for one)

@prologic@twtxt.net sounds about right. I tend to try to build my own before pulling in libs. learn more that way. I was looking at using it as a way to build my twt mirroring idea. and testing the lex parser with a wide ranging corpus to find edge cases. (the pgp signed feeds for one)

On a related note, ‘hopwag’ sounds like a music genre

Tonight in #Brussels you can almost hear the sound of relief crawling around the world right now, problems are not gone, but at least we can work now ! ⌘ https://blog.rmendes.net/2020/tonight-in-brussels-you-can-almost-hear-the-sound-of

the rain pouring down on the roof sounded like a dialup modem connected to the internet

added @!(sndkitref “bezier”)!@ to !sndkit today. coupled with @!(sndkitref “oscf”)!@, it is capable of making some really weird wet FM-y sounds. Me like! #updates #sndkit

Eisenkraut is a standalone cross-platform audio file editor built on top of SC3: [[https://archive.org/details/eisenkraut]] #sound #links #supercollider

a podcast on medical alert sounds: [[https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sound-and-health-hospitals/]] #links #sound

so, having the etudes be ~20mb/minute for sound AND video ain’t too bad, and that’s before doing any sort of compression. My etudes are almost always 80-120 seconds long, so the total size of a lossless uncompressed etude would be ~40mb, consistently. #halfbakedideas

sound for #breathingcard etudes in 44.1 kHz mono 32-bit floating point sound. that’s about ~10mb a minute raw uncompressed audio. #halfbakedideas

a microblogging creative coding platform like dwitter, but for sound. users would be encouraged to remix, the output of one persons code would become the input of the new code. only text would be stored on the server, with audio rendered client-side. to save on time, there could be caches of frozen audio for remixes. #halfbakedideas

Surprise of the day: the “you sent an e-mail” sound in Outlook for iOS really benefits from a decent amount of stereo separation. Kind of a pity that its separatedness will kind of be like an easter egg.

The contact free delivery options sounds cool, let’s see if it works as well in practice

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net ok, that sounds suspicious.

Yesterday I visited the #munich #philharmony for the first time as the ‘Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg’ and the ‘Neuer Kammerchor Berlin’ were playing ‘The Sound Of Quentin #Tarantino’ – awesome!

Join subs using infra sound from master’s device #idea #spotify-family

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Sounds like yet another reason to never buy a smart TV, or at least to never depend on any functionality that requires it to be connected to the Internet.

Huh?! I bombed myself! Allocating 1GB to gzip and send it to the evil bot didn’t sound too wrong. But I forgot that the script runs in parallel for each request… BOOM!

[sound of rain, quiet shuffling]↵… wait. stay↵- - hm. aye↵[more rain]

gameboy color speaker replaced using ds lite speaker. sounds quieter than I expected. but better than no sound at all. this, combined with the new case I got for it, makes it almost feel like a brand new device :)

listening richard devine’s new album sort/lave today. of course the sounds are top notch, but I really am enjoying how ‘composed’ it all feels. it really demonstrates true mastery of modular environments.

postcard sized art is such a lovely scale for the visual medium. attempting to imagine the sound/temporal version of that

Looking at Open Sound Control for the first time. Seems simple enough.

@tux0r@rosaelefanten.org “best viewed in a rusty nail” just sounds weird to me, though.

Apparently the Peterson/Zizek debate went about as I expected: Peterson said nothing interesting, and Zizek said nothing on-topic. I’ll have to watch it later, because it sounds entertaining. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/live-commentary-on-the-zizek-peterson-debate

Brutalism And Music - Exploring Brutalist Architecture & Sound https://thespoonsterspouts.com/music/brutalism-and-music/

Don’t Be Afraid is a fantastic album, & it’s not hurt by the fact that every track other than Ozar Midrashim & The White Roses sounds the same – instead this is thematically appropriate.

The most effective april fool’s day joke is now to say things you mean without sounding sarcastic.

Analogue Mega Sg Review: Sounds Like a Winner https://tedium.co/2019/03/26/analogue-mega-sg-review/

I fixed my now-year-long semi-intermittent sound problem, & the explanation is compellingly stupid: sometimes when ubuntu upgrades sound driver modules it doesn’t make the /dev/snd tree user-writable, & pulse runs as the logged-in user.

Recording of David Bowie and Brian Eno’s jam session with Devo has been found by Mark Mothersbaugh | Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/12/recording-of-david-bowie-and-brian-enos-jam-session-with-devo-has-been-found-by-mark-mothersbaugh/

Responses to my essay ‘Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography’ make me think that most people reading it don’t know what ‘historiography’ means. (It’s exactly what it sounds like…)

Band name of the day: penetrating sounds

Band name of the day: modern sound synthesis

KEYBOARDS FOUND IN DUMPSTERS:↵2: great to type on. return randomizes the keyboard layout.↵4: black and white keys in weird arrangement. produces sound but no letters. may not be a keyboard.↵7: has a ticklish ‘a’ key and tries to edge away when I come near it↵10: enochian alphabet

“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/

A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-big-archive-of-occult-recordings.html

Bad idea of the day: Rather than having a ‘madness’ mechanic, have a ‘stress’ mechanic that causes perceptual distortion (tunnel vision, increased color contrast, blurred vision, louder environmental sounds) & motor distortion (worse aim, movement delays)

For #NaNoGenMo I converted two of Stravinsky’s ballets to tone-poems by converting note frequencies to word frequencies. I dare somebody to do a dramatic reading of these; it’ll sound like an Underworld track: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky.md https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky_pg.md

Slate is complaining that the witches in Suspiria (2018) aren’t scary. Has the author seen Suspiria (1977)? It’s a wonderful film but the scariest thing about it is the sound track.

Andrew W.K.: Investigating The Mystery Of Steev Mike - Stereogum https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/franchises/sounding-board/

Only the best illusionists can cast illusions that fool themselves. Sounds academic but makes them highly sought-after - True Resurrection is expensive and settled inside a zombie brain, such an illusion is as good as any soul.

house where you can extend flaps so that it makes more rain sounds

In case you were wondering, indeed, Female Prisoner Scorpion is a MUCH better movie than the title makes it sound like. (It is exploitation, but it is ALSO surreal impressionistic gothic horror. Also, every frame of this damn movie is gorgeous.)

Need some relaxing dubstep sounds on your ears? Try this: rtmp://codevoid.de/radio #PlayingWithRTMP #NowAACPowered

@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for #hugo awards. All books for best novel were really good this year, but I somehow missed Six Wakes … sound great!

@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for #hugo awards. All books for best novel were really good this year, but I somehow missed Six Wakes … sound great!

Also pulse randomly decided that I didn’t get to have a driver for my (extremely common) sound card anymore. Jesus, systemd – you’re pushing linux on the desktop back to 1998 levels of bullshit.

Sound Design: How Movie-Makers Create The Sound of Violence https://tedium.co/2018/07/31/indiana-jones-sound-design-history/

It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it’s my sound card.

How Sound Effects For Horror Movies Are Made - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcpfwIkcoM

Lazyweb: are there good horror movies about sound engineering / foley other than LFO and Berberian Sound Studio?

Why Foley Artists Use Cabbage and Celery to Create Hollywood’s Distinctive Sounds - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-are-film-sound-effects-made

one neat application of mind-reading tech is that you can finally sound out how people’s text sounds in your head

Sound Blaster: How Sound Cards Took Over Computing https://tedium.co/2018/05/10/sound-blaster-history/

certain step sequences recreate popular melodies and wear visible paths into the floor, sometimes groups will try dances so their bodies modulate the ambient sound; the temple as musical instrument

A temple that does the same thing with sound that cathedrals do with light: Different notes wherever you go, entire spaces audible if you’re in the right place, a whirligig in the form of a boiling rose sounding like wind in the leaves of a brass tree

Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.

So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.

Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more

BBC - Capital - These fake start-ups highlight tech firms’ silly name trends http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180425-why-do-startup-company-names-all-sound-alike

I then passed an empty bus. Even its display said empty. I was too tired but I feel like if I had boarded it, it would’ve taken me to those quarters where they don’t render the matrix and it would’ve been just me, gray nothingness, and the sound of my footsteps on default texture

BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource • Research & Education Space http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound

and if you take someone out with a headbutt, the map plays a cheering football stadium sound and you get the Zidane achievement

The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana… — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba

ok I’ve come to terms with not having a soul, but why is it that every time we kill a zombie, a heavenly chorus sounds and it ascends

The Deep Roots of an … https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deep-roots-italian-song-sounds-like-english-american-medieval-comedy-nonsense

sound_of_space-filling_curves [Herman Haverkort] http://www.win.tue.nl/~hermanh/doku.php?id=sound_of_space-filling_curves

Just bought me a Kala Walnut Tenor Ukulele as late christmas present, i’m thrilled how nice it sounds!

Just bought me a Kala Walnut Tenor Ukulele as late christmas present, i’m thrilled how nice it sounds!

music beamed directly into the auditory cortex, freed from sound waves the way electronic music frees it from instruments

@imariari The Sound of everything https://t.co/a1X2Wy81m4 Good for every season

The Secret Chord That Makes Pop Music Sound Happy - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seventh-chord-happy-pop-song-music-notes

In Conversation with Mark Blyth: George Bernard Shaw - Theater, Economics and… - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5tOTcrlwQ&feature=youtu.be

Brown Acid: the sound that rock forgot | Music | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/31/brown-acid-rock-lance-barresi

The Scary Sound Machine That Is ‘Trying To Set People A Little Bit Off-Kilter’ : NPR http://www.npr.org/2017/10/29/560181981/the-scary-sound-machine-that-is-trying-to-set-people-a-little-bit-off-kilter

How 1977 Broke All the Rules and Changed Music Forever | Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/10/how-1977-broke-all-the-rules-and-changed-music-forever/?curator=MusicREDEF

UbuWeb Sound - Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde (1908-1942) http://www.ubu.com/sound/russian_avant.html

Dangerous sound? What Americans heard in Cuba attacks https://apnews.com/88bb914f8b284088bce48e54f6736d84?utm_source=nextdraft

Failed Histories of Electronic Music https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/failed-histories-of-electronic-music/1B1F7D957FAFF355B5CD797185F4EEFD/core-reader